There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

French was my first language.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

Sports creates a bond between contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God.

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.

Needless to say, urgings by ravens are ignored at one's peril.

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister.

Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

Integrity is essential and irreplaceable. It is the most valuable asset for a person, a company, or a society seeking to build and progress.

I don't think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.

It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows but it hurts. I have to tweeze em in the middle once a week. Otherwise I look like Bert from Sesame Street.

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

When I retired and told my wife I wanted to go back to Bozeman and fight political corruption and get involved in politics, she decided to stay in Seattle.

'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.